MEXICO: Socialism: Mortal Sin

Of
importance in Mexican politics was a grave pronouncement at Mexico City
last week in which the Catholic Church reviewed and re-emphasized its
abhorrence of what the Church defines as Socialism.

"Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons," began last week's Pastoral
Letter, signed by Archbishop Pascual Diaz and all Catholic
archbishops and bishops in Mexico. Its point: "No Catholic can be a
Socialist, understanding by socialism the philosophical, economic or
social system which, in one form or another, does not recognize the
rights of God and the Church, nor the natural right of...